Author Vera Nazarian is making her novel, Dreams of the Compass Rose, free at Smashwords until September 15.
https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/16395
You can read more about it on the Amazon page for the original hardcover edition (published by Wildside Press in 2002). The PW review describes it as " a clever concoction of vignettes and short stories knitted into a morality tale about the temptation of illusion and the price of truth." The Booklist review compares it to Charles de Lint, Lord Dunsany, and The Thousand and One Nights...
http://www.amazon.com/Dreams-Compass.../dp/1587155842
I have no connection to the author except reading her posts on
www.sff.net.